Yes, I think it is.
In fairness, people who have not had to live in close proximity to any major facility, any major industrial facility, I think understand less about the type of safety required of the people who work inside the plant gate. That's not only with nuclear, but it is particularly with nuclear an important one, because you've identified both Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, which were the two large events that everybody has been able to focus on.
In 1979, Three Mile Island, the interesting thing about this was that the vessel worked exactly as it was designed to do, there was total containment, and no loss of life. There was an incident inside the containment, but it was kept safely there. The big problem, obviously, was Chernobyl, which of course was designed without containment. That was in fact a weakness of that type of reactor going forward, and I think a lot of people knew that.
While accidents can always happen, and while we plan our safety systems in depth with respect to the Canadian technology, the type of accident that happened in Chernobyl cannot happen with our units.
That having been said, we spend all our time making sure the women and men who work inside our plant keep it safe. So we've now had I think probably fourth-generation people showing up at the gates of our facilities to work inside those places and we have host communities that are extremely supportive of the types of operations that go on there.
We do not just work inside the gate. We of course have very strong emergency measure planning, in conjunction with the communities, so we work with those communities at a very high level. But as you rightly identified, once you're a long way away from there and you don't understand all the things that happen, it's very hard to persuade people until they've actually become accustomed to the knowledge that comes from working with the technology over a series of years.
We have discovered over the last several months that the more we speak to people about the technology and the more they understand the record we have, there is an easing of the concern about safety. But there is no question that you've identified one of those issues. If we go to a brand-new community, as Mr. Henuset is, you start all over. You prime the community for questions and you show them what the technology can do, and then you demonstrate, through the 40-year history we have, that we can do it safely.